30 People Can End ACEs in Your County. Why Aren’t They?

We do need the
following people in your county to stop business as usual and focus on
preventing adverse childhood experiences (ACEs).

City mayors

City counselors

County commissioners

School board members

These
local elected leaders—many of them your neighbors and colleagues—have
the capacity to collectively understand the emotional and financial
costs of ACEs and trauma. We can’t have family-friendly cities and
counties while we live in an epidemic of childhood trauma that’s hiding
in plain sight.

We have the data, research, technology and
collaborative strategies to achieve collective innovation in each
county—and create and strengthen the services shown to prevent ACEs,
strengthen families and improve student achievement. We know exactly
which policies and programs each school needs to keep students with ACEs
from being marginalized and told to suffer in silence through the day.

We
need our local elected officials to go from saying this, “Well,
preventing ACEs is not really what we are set up to do with your tax
dollars,” to, “Our priority will now be the safety, health and education
of every child—all while ensuring the city, county and schools do a
great job serving all residents.”

Yes, it requires reimagining how city hall works—in partnership with county and school leadership. It means being data-driven and cross-sector. It means reaching across departments and agencies. It means the public sector reaching out to the private sector. It means transparency. . .

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